John Williams Walker

John Williams Walker (12 August 1783-23 April 1823) was a US Senator from Alabama (DR) from 14 December 1819 to 12 December 1822, preceding William Kelly.

Biography
John William Walker was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1783, and he became a lawyer in Petersburg. In 1810, he settled in the new town of Huntsville in the Mississippi Territory, and he took part in the new Alabama Territory's first territorial legislature in 1818. In 1819, Walker was elected to be one of Alabama's inaugural US Senators, but he resigned in 1822 due to his failing health and died in 1823. He was the father of Confederate secretary of war LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate senator Richard Wilde Walker, and congressman Percy Walker.